Galaxy Note II gets a taste of KitKat on Verizon

Verizon Wireless Samsung Galaxy Note II owners are now being treated to Google's Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system through a new software update. Along with the improvements that KitKat brings, the software update will also add Knox 2.0 compatibility, some visual changes, and also Galaxy Gear 2 compatibility for those who want to don Samsung's flagship smartwatch.

Verizon says that the software update "will improve the performance" of your phone.

Verizon will be pushing out the update to phones, but it may take a while for you to receive notification that the update is ready. Once updated, your software version number should be KOT49H.I605VRUFND7. For a complete list of changes, be sure to hit up the source link at the bottom.

In addition to Verizon, rival carrier Sprint had also recently begun rolling out KitKat to its Galaxy Note 2 owners.

Yeah based on naming conventions that is the route they chose. Look at the Samsung Z the first commercially available phone running Tizen dropping in Russia later this year. Not a Galaxy in sight. Now what they call the original gear now it's been updated to Tizen I couldn't say.

My ex-sister-in-law's wife just got it on her Verizon Galaxy Note 2 a couple of hours ago.
(Baltimore, Maryland)

It was actually my own Note 2 for several months until I sold it to her. She just said on
her FB page that she didn't like it because a couple of apps no longer worked or kept
crashing after KitKat OTA update from Verizon was installed.

Oh, Samsung has it ready to go. We're just watching Verizon drag its feet. There were some rumbling that they were going to skip the older Galaxy updates This renews my hope the GS3 will actually get it.

What did you do to find a potential rogue app. I am not interested in starting completely over. I have been denying the KitKat update everyday and I will continue to do so until I find out that the likelihood of having problems has decreased significantly.

Finally, I was starting to lose hope. I'm wondering if I should update. Like someone mentioned above, I've read that people have had issues with the battery.
I'm the kind of guy who stops a microwave at one second to feel like a bomb defuser.

I guess we don't get the update at the same time. When I went to be the update was supposed to be available but I haven't receives notification of that yet. When I check my phone it keeps saying it's up to date.

As much as Verizon drags their feet on updates, why is it that every time I get an update, performance gets worse. The last minor updated caused lots of lag for me, and now with KitKat, in addition to lag, about half the time when I make or receive a call, people cannot hear me but I can hear them, until about an hour ago when I call people I can't hear them at all.

Disclosure: Back in the day, this phone was rooted, and then unrooted by a VZW update, and I have taken 3 updates since I believe in which cause I have yet to factory reset.

Don't do the update! Your Note 2 will stop receiving emails and your battery life will be toast. There is no fix for this. So don't update. If you already have, you are in trouble just like me. I am leaving post on Samsumgs facebook page to try to get their attention to fix this. Not sure who to contact. The phone carriers are lost. Android...what are you doing? Driving us to Apple? I want my Galaxy Note 2 working again. And no hard reboot fixes this. So save your self the heart break.

My Note 2 went through the update without me knowing any of these problems and yes my battery life is toast. I am very angry about this! I use to have a super cool phone with alot of features I had turned on and the battery life was amazing. I could get by 15 hrs without a charge. Now I have to turn off all of my features, constantly kill apps, and charge my battery through out the day. Sprint acts like they don't know what I am talking about and Samsung support told me I could send in my phone to be looked at but the TAT is 7-9 days. No one wants to take responsibility for rolling out a bad update so now I have an expensive piece of crap.

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